Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question Unicode has a million icon-like glyphs, but they’re very hard to search. Is there a Unicode … Read more
I’m looking for the html code for the dot. Not the dot that’s at the end of sentences but the dot that’s used to separate items horizontally. Item 1 . Item 2 . Item 3 The traditional dot is centered on the bottom of the line while the dot I’m looking for is centered on … Read more
This question already has answers here: Unescape HTML entities in JavaScript? (31 answers) Closed 5 years ago. Say I get some JSON back from a service request that looks like this: { “message”: “We're unable to complete your request at this time.” } I’m not sure why that apostraphe is encoded like that ('); all … Read more
I’m parsing some HTML with Beautiful Soup 3, but it contains HTML entities which Beautiful Soup 3 doesn’t automatically decode for me: >>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup >>> soup = BeautifulSoup(“<p>£682m</p>”) >>> text = soup.find(“p”).string >>> print text £682m How can I decode the HTML entities in text to get “£682m” instead of “£682m”. 6 … Read more
Are they the same as XML, perhaps plus the space one ( )? I’ve found some huge lists of HTML escape characters but I don’t think they must be escaped. I want to know what needs to be escaped. 5 Answers 5
I know that the entities < and > are used for < and >, but I am curious what these names stand for. Does < stand for something like “Left tag” or is it just a code? 10 s 10 < stands for the less-than sign: < > stands for the greater-than sign: > ≤ … Read more
How do you use the CSS content property to add HTML entities? Using something like this just prints to the screen instead of the non-breaking space: .breadcrumbs a:before { content: ‘ ’; } 9 s 9 You have to use the escaped unicode : Like .breadcrumbs a:before { content: ‘\0000a0’; } More info on : … Read more
